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The other devotees onstage had their own stories, too. Some of them had met Ram Dass in the late ’60s when he first returned from India and had heard him on his speaking tour. The people at those early talks described feeling a transmission coming from him, something behind his words, a vibration of a great love that compelled them, too, to travel
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the mind, which, as a prakṛtic entity cannot “grasp” that which is finer than itself, namely, puruṣa (Īśvara, as we know, is a “special” puruṣa), can grasp or focus on the prakṛtic sound oṁ. But since Īśvara has invested his presence in this sound (as an act of grace), the mind is, for all intents and purposes, coming into direct contact with Īśvar
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Practices in Śrīvidyā differ according to sampradāya, and along with Lalitā Devī, the tradition includes the worship of other deities, particularly the elephant-headed Gaṇapatī, Bālā Tripurasundarī (the form of Devī as a young girl), Mātaṅgī, and Vārāhī.
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The first chakra is known in Sanskrit as Muladhara.
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Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures) (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC)
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The primary texts of vēdānta are the prasthānatraya, the ‘triple origin’ or ‘triple source’, namely the Upaniṣads, Brahmasūtra and Bhagavad Gītā, and these contain a wide variety of spiritual teachings suited to the needs of people at different stages of spiritual development, so they can be and have been interpreted in many different ways by the v
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You can do things like borrow money from the guru and pretend you forgot to pay him back,
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Practice the Śrīm meditation every day A Tāntrik meditation practice is provided in Part II as it relates to the first (and most important) nāma—Śrīmātā. A guided audio meditation can be accessed when you buy this book. My suggestion is to practice this daily for 10-15 minutes.